Burger King apologises for Russian promotion offering free burgers to women who get pregnant by World Cup stars June 21, 2018 Burger King Russia has apologised after it ran a marketing campaign offering women a lifetime supply of free meals if they got pregnant by football stars playing at the World Cup. The bizarre promotion was posted on a Russian social media website by Burger King on Tuesday, before being deleted after a public backlash. The [...]
World Cup 2018: Russia defy 125/1 odds with blistering start – so why have the hosts been so good? June 20, 2018 So hopeless did Russia’s prospects look in the days leading up to this World Cup that supporters were being urged to grow moustaches in a desperate attempt to lift the national team and its under-fire manager, the bewhiskered Stanislav Cherchesov. It is not known precisely how many Muscovites took up the gauntlet laid down by [...]
Under fire Petropavlovsk board receive support from advisory groups June 18, 2018 The embattled board of gold miner Petropavlovsk has received support from two influential advisory groups in the face of shareholder attempts to oust it. The board has been backed by advisory groups ISS and Glass Lewis which recommend that shareholders vote for the existing board and oppose the attempts to remove it. Last month, shareholders [...]
Oil and gas add to current market worries June 18, 2018 Recent rises in the oil and gas price worry some in the markets. Will they trigger more inflation? Will there be supply interruptions given the US wish to sanction Iran, given the troubles in Venezuela, and the growing hostility of the West towards Russia? We think there are stresses, but not ones which need become [...]
At OPEC meeting in Vienna, bickering member states to decide on raising oil production June 17, 2018 The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will meet in Vienna this week, with members split on whether to end its production freeze. Oil prices soared last month, and are still up at $76 per barrel, more than double what they were when the group introduced a cap on production in 2016. Brent crude hit [...]
World Cup Betting: Back Brazil to banish memories of 2014 in Russia June 13, 2018 It’s been 1,432 long days since Mario Gotze volleyed the ball into the Argentina net to win the World Cup for Germany – a fitting end to a feast of football in Brazil. Four years later, and we’re ready for the 2018 edition in Russia, in what promises to be another sporting spectacular. The build-up [...]
World Cup 2018: An insider’s view on what England fans face in Russia June 13, 2018 England flew out to their training base in Repino ahead of their opening World Cup match against Tunisia on Monday. Gareth Southgate’s side begin their Group G campaign in Volgograd, before travelling to Nizhny Novgorod to play Panama and Kaliningrad to face Belgium. Read more: Trevor Steven: Why Neymar holds the key to this World [...]
Yahoo hit by £250,000 fine from UK watchdog over Russian data breach June 12, 2018 Yahoo has been served a fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for £250,000, after a Russian cyber attack in 2014 left the data of some 500m users at risk. The watchdog argued that the worldwide data breach left Yahoo in violation of the Data Protection Act 1998, with around 500,000 British account holders affected [...]
One in five EU consumers have shopped using a voice assistant like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa June 4, 2018 While 87 per cent of US consumers are aware of voice and text aides, the European Union is miles ahead on adopting new technology from the likes of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to carry out their daily buying needs. According to research carried out by Mastercard, 21 per cent of consumers in the EU have [...]
Potash fertiliser producer Emmerson lists on London Stock Exchange June 4, 2018 A company looking to produce a fertiliser called potash listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange today after raising around £6m in a significantly oversubscribed placing. Emmerson Plc, which has attracted high-net worth investors including billionaire Scot and Stagecoach founder Ann Gloag, said it had acquired a potash project in Morocco which [...]